SPECIAL NOTICE

IMPLEMENTATION OF ENHANCED PI

W e are pleased to announce that the IEM will be All graduates planning to sit for the IEM Professional fully implementing the Enhanced Professional Interview may download information or guidelines from Interview (PI) with effect from 1 July, 2018. Using the IEM website at http://www.myiem.org.my or call the the competency profiles for professional engineers as IEM Secretariat at 03-7968 4007. A hard copy can also be the basis for assessment, the Enhanced PI measures obtained at the IEM Secretariat office in Petaling Jaya, the outcome of practical training and development Selangor. for independent practice. This is in line with the global Important Deadlines in the Transition Towards move in engineering communities worldwide towards an outcome-based competence assessment for Enhanced PI international recognition. In the transition to a full switch-over to the Enhanced PI, all The main benefits of the Enhanced PI are as follows: new applicants and re-sit candidates of the Conventional It is a competence-based and evidence-based PI must take note of the following: assessment; it will provide applicants with a more NEW APPLICANTS objective and more balanced assessment by minimising the subjective judgement of individuals. IEM will completely replace the Conventional PI with The revised application form in the enhanced PI will the Enhanced PI with effect from 1 JULY, 2018. be equally friendly to all professional engineering IEM will NOT ACCEPT new applications through the practices rather than focus on engineering Conventional PI with effect from 1 JANUARY, 2018, consultancy practices. in order to allow time to process applications and to The Training & Experience Report will have a conduct interviews well before 1 JULY, 2018. prescribed format for PI applicants to provide the New applicants of the Conventional PI must ensure required evidence for specific competencies. This that they submit applications to the IEM Secretariat will allow them to put up a better report compared before NOON on SATURDAY, 30 DECEMBER, 2017. to the conventional version which does not provide After this deadline, they will have to submit fresh specific guidance. applications under Enhanced PI. To prepare for this move, IEM has been conducting RE-SIT CANDIDATES training and awareness programmes since 2015. IEM will continue to provide training for potential applicants to IEM will NO LONGER ACCEPT re-sit applications for the prepare them for the full switch-over to the Enhanced PI Conventional PI with effect from 31 DECEMBER, 2019. next year. Re-sit candidates of the Conventional PI will have to submit fresh applications under the Enhanced PI if ANNOUNCEMENT they fail to meet the above deadline. To ensure a smooth passage to achieving Corporate FULL SWITCH-OVER TO ENHANCED PI FOR THE IEM Membership of IEM, new applicants are strongly PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW WILL COMMENCE ON encouraged to apply for Enhanced PI now.

1 JULY, 2018. Standing Committee on Examinations and Qualifications.

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IMPORTANT TIMELINES FOR FULL SWITCH-OVER TO ENHANCED PI

Re-sit Candidates under Conventional PI New Application no longer accepted 1 July 2018 Full by IEM from for ConventionalJURUTERA MARCH 2017

Switch-over to 31 December 2019

PI not Enhanced PI acceptable from New applications for 1 January 2018 Conventional PI must reach IEM Secretariat by 12.00 noon on 30 December 2017